The 2025 Cold Moon - the final full moon of 2025 - it's also a super moon - meaning it is at its closest to the earth - so it looks big

Dartmoor - Gidleigh Common - hill farmer and dog

Been to Chris Chapman's book launch of 'Hallowed Earth' - brilliant and very busy. In the Gidleigh / Throwleigh matrix - I love it - my favourite picture Steven with his dogs

Despite all the rain and gloom a Speckled Wood continues to thrive in my garden when the sun eventually comes out

This is great .... cattle droving in the Highlands www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RPQ...

Red Admiral in my gardening this afternoon

Ange - the landlady from the Turk's Head on St Agnes asked if I thought Dartmoor Brewery Legend was a good beer - I said .... yes - they ordered a barrel and now it's all gone. Dartmoor goods and services on the Isles of Scilly!

Sailing away from Scilly - been a brilliant 4 weeks

Male Black Redstart on Porth Killier St Agnes this afternoon #islesofscilly

3rd winter Caspian Gull, female Black Redstart, juvenile Cormorant, Great Black-backed Gull 1st winter Periglis St Agnes #islesofscilly

Goldcrest

Male (black) and female (brown) Blackcaps feeding on apples

A cracking male Black Redstart - Porth Killier, St Agnes #islesofscilly

Male Redstart feeding, a couple of Greenshank and a Sanderling - St Agnes #islesofscilly

1st winter Common Gull and Curlew- Periglis yesterday #islesofscilly

Some more St Agnes birds: Common Tern, Starling, Stonechat and Wheatear #islesofscilly

Some more birds from Bryher yesterday: Wryneck, Shag, Ring Ouzel and Mediterranean Gull #islesofscilly

Went to Bryher today - big influx of thrushes: Fieldfare, Redwing, Ring Ouzel and Song Thrush - birds from the far north #islesofscilly

White Wagtail, Linnet, manky Blackbird with ring and Chiffchaff St Agnes #islesofscilly

Humming-bird Hawk-moth St Agnes #islesofscilly

A plump and content / lazy Mourning Dove this evening #StAgnes #islesofscilly

Little Egret, Curlew and Stonechat from St Agnes today

Earlier I incorrectly posted this bird as a Black Redstart as it was flitting around on a beach frequented by that species - it is in fact a female Common Redstart! Thanks to those who put me right ....

Some birds feeding on the flies in the seaweed, Porth Killier, St Agnes: Grey Wagtail, Dunnock, Meadow Pipit and Rock Pipit

Mourning Dove yesterday evening before it went off to roost #islesofscilly

There are two other American vagrants on St Agnes in additional to the Mourning Dove: Spotted Sandpiper and Buff-bellied American Pipit #islesofscilly

Hoopoe on Periglis beach St Agnes #islesofscilly

Turtle Dove - Lower Town Farm, St Agnes #islesofscilly

Mourning Dove - Lower Town Farm, St Agnes #islesofscilly

Female Stonechat on St Mary's today #islesofscilly

Tresco Abbey Gardens today

Always love a trip to the Tresco Abbey Gardens for the squirrels! They appear to be spreading beyond the gardens now - one seen today at Borough Farm! #islesofscilly

Incredibly close views of the Wilson's Phalarope today at Porth Hillock #islesofscilly

Great White Egret, Grey Heron, Ruff and a Water Rail - St Mary's today #islesofscilly

Threadbare: How We Unravelled the British Wool Industry www.scribehound.com/countryside/...

Rain stopped play

A day on St Martins #islesofscilly A nice Knot, some Sanderling, a Raven and a Crimson Speckled

Prickly Stick Insect (Acanthoxyla geisovii), Common Darter dragonfly, Western Seed Conifer Bug (US species naturalist in UK 2007) and a migrant Painted Lady butterfly St Mary's #islesofscilly

Revisited the Wilson's Phalarope and also saw a Rose-coloured Starling and a lovely Greenshank and a Brown Rat (who saw me too!) St Mary's #islesofscilly

9 Cattle Egret flying into St Mary's today at noon

Early start to see a Wilson's Phalarope (American wader) at Higher Moors which arrived late last evening

Cory's, Great, (shearwaters), Gannet and Atlantic Grey Seal

Ocean Sun Fish, Dolphin, Bishop Rock weather station and a seal 10km from the shore

Purple Sandpipers, Gannet, the Bishop Rock Lighthouse and Shags

Been out on a pelagic seabird trip way out past the Bishop Rock - 150 Cory's Shearwater and 800 Great Shearwaters (they breed in the southern hemisphere and spend their winter up here in northern waters- many around Scilly) 2 Cory's and two Greats

Curlew Sandpiper on Porthloo beach - second picture with Sanderling

Ivy Bee on ivy (!) on St Mary's

St Agnes today - pale / albino / leucistic Rock Pipit on Periglis and and a cracking Wheatear on Wingletang

Spotted flycatcher and Pied flycatcher from Bryher

Ortolan Bunting on Bryher today #islesofscilly